How to Select a Competency Center Model - Slide 3

If technology governance is a top priority, then the technology standards model might be the best approach. It standardizes development process on a single, unified technology platform, enabling greater reuse of work from project to project. This approach avoids the cost and time spent evaluating and selecting technology and prevents spending on redundant or overlapping software. Although neither technology nor people are shared, standardization creates mutual advantages across projects.

If your company’s tired of reinventing the wheel with each integration project, it’s time to establish an integration competency center (ICC). Actually the concept works for business intelligence, data warehousing or any other group representing an integrated view of the company’s data, according to data integration vendor Informatica.

It says ICCs promote delivery of integration projects of better quality, that are produced faster and that cost less.

Informatica outlines five basic ICC models, each addressing people, processes and organizational framework. A number of factors should be considered when selecting the best model for your company, including organizational maturity with integration practices, size and geographic distribution of the company and staff, and the business reason for establishing the ICC. Match your priorities with the benefits most closely tied to that model.